Improvement in shoes



J. B. STEVENS.

Shoe.

Patented Jude 25, 1878'.

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S E S S E N W W ATTORNEYS,

N: PErERS. PHOTO-LITHDGRkPHER. WASHINGTON, D c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEROME B. STEVENS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 205,435, dated June 25,1878; application filed February 9, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JEROME B. STEvENs, ofDetroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented anew and valuable Improvement in Shoes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of myshoe, and

Fi 2-is a sectional detail of the same.

My invention relates to button-shoes; and it consists in providing abutton-shoe with an elastic gore in the quarter of the shoe under thebutton-flap to draw the shoe together, and with buttons connected toelastic tape or cord to draw the button-flap down.

My invention also consists in the construction of the button-flap abovethe elastic gore, all as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointedout in the claims.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents an ordinary button-shoe, of which B is the button-flap, andO O are the buttons for fastening the flap.

D represents an elastic goring, sewed or otherwise fastened in anysuitable manner in the quarter of the shoe under the button-flap B, forthe purpose of drawing the shoe to gether.

The button-flap B is drawn down by the buttons (1 0, being connected byelastic cords or tapes a a to the shoe, said elastic cords or tapespassing between the upper and the lining of the shoe, as shown.

By these means the shoe can be put on and pulled off without beingunbuttoned on the instep.

For low-quarter shoes, the button-flap B does not extend much higherthan the elastic goring; but for gaiters it extends upward to anydesired height. In such case the buttonflap is formed with a scollop,I), just above the instep. At the deepest part of this scollop is abutton-hole for fastening on a button, 0 and then at the top of the flapis another button, C

It will be noticed that by the scallop b I do away with two buttons, sothat there are only two buttons to be used in putting on and taking oifthe shoe where eight or ten are generally used.

What I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isf 1. In abutton-shoe, the combination of an elastic goring, D, under thebutton-flap, and elastic cords or tapes a arranged between the upper andlining, for connecting the buttons 0 to. the shoe, as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

2. In a button-shoe having an elastic gorin g, D, under the button-flap,and the buttons (J connected by elastic cords or tapes a to the shoe,the button-flap B, formed with a scallop, b, just above the instep,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have,

hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JEROME B. STEVENS.

